Jobs after arriving US

[My&Truong 4]

Hi Vietnamese people who are going to gather your family in US and who are living in US!

Attending a college in America will take a long time to earn good money and it is not easy to go to school again while you need to concern about your family. So can you share with us your experience? We'd like to know which jobs Vietnamese can get in as soon as arriving US?

Thanks a lot!

[Boiler 45,766]

Nail Salons

[lil2be 11]

Restaurant worker

Most Vietnamese I know either are dish washer or cook at the restaurant.

[Anonymous885 44]

Nail or Hair Salons, waitress, cashier, manufacturing, etc.

[BatonRouge Bill 2]

residential construction contractors often pay cash to avoid taxes

[luckytxn 2,264]

Truck driver. My company on the west coast hires quite a few VN.

[frontgear 194]

Your education is more important than any money you can make. Go to a college, get a degree, and better yourself. Or you'll be stuck doing dishes, nails, or driving trucks for the rest of your life.

One of these days you'll come back here and thank me.

[luckytxn 2,264]

Good advice if one is capable of doing this. Usually though most need to work and go to school. The best bet is to work as soon as able to do so and earn a living just for the self worth it brings. Some come and do nails and hair and start their own business eventually.

Your education is more important than any money you can make. Go to a college, get a degree, and better yourself. Or you'll be stuck doing dishes, nails, or driving trucks for the rest of your life.

One of these days you'll come back here and thank me.

[My&Truong 4]

Your education is more important than any money you can make. Go to a college, get a degree, and better yourself. Or you'll be stuck doing dishes, nails, or driving trucks for the rest of your life.

One of these days you'll come back here and thank me.

Thanks for your advice!

I actually want to find a job and then after living in US 1 year I'll go to school because of better tuition. New Vietnamese American can only be manual workers if they don't go to a college. Among all of jobs people listed above, being a cook will be great for me. My ambition is cooking, but I don't think restaurants in America allow me to work for them without any certificate.

[luckytxn 2,264]

Usually short order cooks are wanted and needed. Many start cooking this way and work their way up to better restaraunts and line cooks. My father owned a diner and I remember it was hard to find good cooks. Usually to start this way though they want people to work nights though.

I also love o cook and many keep pushing me to open a place but I remember the hassles of owning ones own restaraunt.

Thanks for your advice!

I actually want to find a job and then after living in US 1 year I'll go to school because of better tuition. New Vietnamese American can only be manual workers if they don't go to a college. Among all of jobs people listed above, being a cook will be great for me. My ambition is cooking, but I don't think restaurants in America allow me to work for them without any certificate.

[My&Truong 4]

Usually short order cooks are wanted and needed. Many start cooking this way and work their way up to better restaraunts and line cooks. My father owned a diner and I remember it was hard to find good cooks. Usually to start this way though they want people to work nights though.

I also love o cook and many keep pushing me to open a place but I remember the hassles of owning ones own restaraunt.

So what I should worry about is finding a restaurant near us. The thing is there is only 1 Chinese one here. Living in an area with a few Viet people is not easy for Vietnamese newcomers.

[luckytxn 2,264]

Does it have to be an Asian one to start out with?

So what I should worry about is finding a restaurant near us. The thing is there is only 1 Chinese one here. Living in an area with a few Viet people is not easy for Vietnamese newcomers.

[luckytxn 2,264]

They have local driving jobs and can be home every day with family. Next time think before posting.

Terrible advice for new immigrants. Truck driving will require lots of time on the road and away from the loved one(s). Eventually that will lead to marriage failure. New immigrants feel isolated in new environment with unfamiliar things. You'll need a job that provides income. At the same time there's plenty of "family quality" time left-over.

[luckytxn 2,264]

Then don't do it if incapable. My country hires VN so some are able to drive just fine. The aim is to get to work as soon as possible to get started in this country. Not many have the resources to just go to school and get a degree. I have been on the site for many years many times I hear how hard it is to find work and how they feel worthless. I am going to assume you are a troll and asked that you be banned. Take care.

Now are you using the site to get a visa for someone or are you just coming here to demean everyone?

Most VNese can BARELY pass their driving test to obtain their legal driving licenses so they can their PASSENGER cars to school/work.

Who needs to think before posting?

I do have one friend who worked at UPS in his 5th year being a freshly arrived immgrant in this country. He quit that job within 6 months. His wife told him "Find another one, even the lower pay. I want you to come home alive to be the father of our children. Your driving job can't guarantee that!"

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

In order to get an "education" in America, one needs to be sufficient in the spoken language. So here's the 64K question to the OP: "How's your English?"

What you want is one thing, can you achieve your goal with what you have in your hands is another.

Yep. Without solid English skills the best they can usually get is a job working for other VN people. I don't mean to denigrate VN people in any way, but they tend to be not very generous to their own people unless they're family. That means long hours and short pay. In the SF Bay Area that usually means babysitting for a VN couple while they go to work, or working in a nail salon in a contract job. You need a license to work in a nail salon, but all of the manicure schools here have VN staff and conduct classes in Vietnamese, and the state even administers the test in Vietnamese for those who prefer it. It's tough to go to ESL classes when you're working 12 hours a day. The nail salon gig at least has the side benefit that you'll be interacting with English speaking people during the day, so you get a chance to practice English.

The traditional American thinking would be to work part time and go to school part time, but most of the jobs they could get without English skills aren't part time. They're more like some form of indentured slavery.

The ideal situation is if their new American family can afford to support them while they acquire English skills and then go on to learn a trade or get a degree. Even then, they'll often insist on working, even if it's a crappy job, because they feel guilty if they're not contributing. This is especially true if they're getting flak from their VN family members here about being a burden on their family when they're expected to be not only helping to support themselves, but also sending some cash to the family back home. It's a thorny issue that really needs to be discussed with them.